Click here for the whole provisional Conference Programme  at a glance.

Please choose between the following parallel sessions (click on the title to read the relevant set of abstracts):

Monday 30 July

Keynote 1: Professor Martha Stoddard-Holmes - Abstract

    Session 1.

• 1a - Children
• 1b - The Senses
• 1c - D/deafness I: Conceptualisations and Experience

Keynote 2: Professor David Wright - Abstract

   Session 2.

• 2a - Care and 'Cure' I
• 2b - D/deafness II: Evidence and Experience
• 2c - Intersections: Literature, Gender, (Dis)Ability

Tuesday 31 July

Keynote 3: Professor Vanessa Toulmin - Abstract

   Session 3.

• 3a - Monstrosity and Display
• 3b - Care and 'Cure' II
• 3c - Assistance and Technology

   Session 4.

• 4a - Literature and the Mind
• 4b - Challenging Models of Disability

     Session 5.

• 5a - Approaching the Mind
• 5b - Envisioning Disability in Art

Wednesday 1 June

     Session 6.

• 6a - D/deafness III: Perspectives on Auralism and Sign
• 6b - Care and 'Cure' III
• 6c - Concepts and Ideologies